31st year - N° 347 Monday, 12 December 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 347 Monday, 12 December 2016

12 December / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 195 years ago Wednesday 12th of December 1821 Writer Gustave Flaubert known for his novel ‘Madame Bovary’ is born in Rouen, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(+) 169 years ago Sunday 12th of December 1847 Criminologist Hans Gustav Adolf Gross is born in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

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(+) 153 years ago Saturday 12th of December 1863 Artist Edvard Munch is born in Ådalsbruk, Hedmark, Norway.

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(+) 141 years ago Sunday 12th of December 1875 War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt is born in Aschersleben, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(-) 133 years ago Wednesday 12th of December 1883 Mien Frankenhuizen-Van Der Linden is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 101 years ago Sunday 12th of December 1915 Singer and actor Frank Francis Albert Sinatra aka Ol' Blue Eyes aka The Voice is born in 415 Monroe Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Wednesday 12th of December 1917 Serial killer Edward Joseph Leonski aka The Singing Strangler is born in Kenvil, New Jersey, United States. The Leonski family moved to East 77th Street, New York during Edward's infancy.

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(x) 82 years ago Wednesday 12th of December 1934 64-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is arrested in a rooming house in 200 East 52nd Street, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 76 years ago Thursday 12th of December 1940 Singer Dionne Marie Warwick is born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 67 years ago Monday 12th of December 1949 Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs is born in Gralla, Steiermark, Austria.

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(-) 64 years ago Friday 12th of December 1952 Spree killer Billy William Edward Cook aka Billy Boy Cockeyed Cook is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 24 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

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(+) 51 years ago Sunday 12th of December 1965 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Richard Guerrero is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Thursday 12th of December 1996 Multiple murderer Lem Davis Tuggle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Boydton, Virginia, United States.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 12th of December 1999 A fine traffic jam in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 16 years ago Tuesday 12th of December 2000 41-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'DDV en Danger' in Ecole Supérieure d'Art, 25 Rue Lesdiguières, Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, France. A double glass door with a long piece of wood attached to both sides. Inside two benches are placed on a heap of concrete bricks. On one bench stands a fine selection of art books from the school's library I am stretched out on the other bench. The spectators can choose to open a door and push forward the piece of wood and make the bench tumble over. At first the books go down on the floor after that I go down on the floor.

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